06 July 2017

"They Told Me I Should Go To Rehab....."

...so that is where I will be for now, not on vacation but more like out for repairs. In recent months my gait has been less of a walk and more like an old Tuscan dance, the saltarello, a dance whose name means "hopping step."
While I'm away from the keyboard, I hope you will browse through the archives here and, if you find something that interests you, please comment and I promise to respond to each one as soon as I am able.

In the meantime, for summer reading I can recommend nothing funnier than American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis. Ellis is a southern transplant to New York City who, when her writing career stalled after the publication of a novel some fifteen years ago, became a housewife/ professional poker player. Beginning with "The Wainscoting War," a tale of decorative mayhem in an upper East Side Manhattan co-op, to "Dumpster Diving With The Stars," a reality show run amok in the Hudson Valley's antiques alley, and ending with a woman who rescues pre-pubescent beauty contestants in "Pageant Protection," the fun never flags. Published by Doubleday & Company: 2016.

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Original photograph by Peter Librizzi, restoration by Renee Ing Akana at 28moons

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Why The Blue Lantern ?

A blue-shaded lamp served as the starboard light for writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's imaginary journeys after she became too frail to leave her bedroom at the Palais Royale. Her invitation, extended to all, was "Regarde!" Look, see, wonder, accept, live.

"I think of myself as being in a line of work that goes back about twenty-five thousand years. My job has been finding the cave and holding the torch. Somebody has to be around to hold the flaming branch, and make sure there are enough pigments." - Calvin Tompkins